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On Friday 29 September 2006 14:46, John Newman wrote: |
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> But later on I decided what the hell, I may as well upgrade X. However, |
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> when I attempt emerge xorg-base/xorg-x11, I get a whole list of |
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> "Blocked" packages, the gist of it being my installation of |
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> x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 is blocking... everything. |
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Actually it says <x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 or something like that (you obviously |
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didn't bother to show us...). You are running xorg-x11-6.8.x. |
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> I was thinking that |
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> emerge could handle this type of situation since I'm doing an upgrade - |
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> that it would unmerge the old stuff and emerge the new stuff as it went |
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> along. |
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Nope. |
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> Is my only option to manually unmerge my current x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 |
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> (and I have hundreds of packages I've emerge'd that depend on it, |
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> naturally), then emerge x11-base/xorg-x11 to get the new version (7.1 I |
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> believe?). Or is there a better way? |
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I believe the upgrade guide should suffice [1]. And yes, it does tell you to |
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unmerge the old xorg-x11. Just follow that guide and you should be fine... |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml |
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Bo Andresen |
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